Education
Harvard University—Ph.D., Social Anthropology, 2014; A.M. Social Anthropology, 2011.
University of British Columbia—M.A., Political Science, 2007
Trent University—B.A. Honours, Anthropology and International Development Studies with an emphasis in International Political Economy, 2004.
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. 2015 - present.
Postdoctoral fellow. Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. 2014-2015
Affiliate Appointments
Faculty Fellow. Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2017-2020.
Publications
Books
Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk, forthcoming with the University of Hawai’i Press.
Edited Volumes
2018. Guest co-editor (with Paul Christensen and Eric Cunningham). Bodies in Motion. Special issue of Japanese Studies. Volume 38 (1).
2014. Guest co-editor (with Yuson Jung). Food and the Senses. Special Issue of Food and Foodways, Volume 22 (1-2).
Journal Articles
2018. Japanese Ballet Dancers: Routes of Mobility and the Body. Japanese Studies 38 (1): 75-91
2015. Food after Fukushima: Risk and Scientific Citizenship in Japan. American Anthropologist. 117 (3): 455-467
2014. Unexpected Moments and the Wine Experience. Food and Foodways 22: 90-111
Book Chapters
2014. On food and safety. In To see once more the stars: Living in a post-Fukushima world. Edited by Daisuke Naito, Ryan Sayre, Heather Swanson and Satsuki Takahashi. New Pacific Press.
2013. Space and terroir in the Chilean wine industry. In Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass. Bloomsbury, edited by Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin. 51-66.
Other Publications
2012. Food and Place. Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer.
2007. Augusto Pinochet and Economic Nationalism: In search of Chile’s superior destiny. Trent Center for the Study of Global Power and Politics. Working Paper Series, CSGP 07/4.
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
National and International
Sam Taylor Fellowship, 2015.
Waseda University Junior Visiting Researcher Fellowship, 2012-2013.
Japanese Studies Fellowship for Doctoral Students, Japan Foundation, 2011-2012.
Monbukagakusho research scholarship. Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology. 2007-2008
University
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Bok Center, Harvard University. 2015.
Reischauer Institute Dissertation Completion Grant. 2013-2014.
Reischauer Institute Dissertation Grant. 2011-2012.
Summer Research Grant. Asia Center, Harvard University. 2010.
Summer Research Grant for Doctoral Students. Reischauer Institute. 2010.
Summer Research Funding. Harvard Anthropology Department. 2009.
Summer Language Grant. Asia Center, Harvard University. 2009.
Karanja Njoroge Community Service Award. Trent University. 2004.
Invited Talks
2017. "Food safety and the politics of risk after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Japan Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, September 26.
2017. "Food safety after Fukushima." Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University, September 7.
2015. “Mothers and Activism after Fukushima.” Freie University, May 19.
2015. “Food and Risk after Fukushima.” Skidmore College, January 26.
2014. “Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar Series, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University. September 30.
2014. “Food after Fukushima: Risk and Radioactive Pollution in Contemporary Japan.” Hamilton College, March 12.
2014. “Citizen science and radiation measurements after Fukushima.” Yale University Anthropology Colloquium series. January 27.
2013. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” Kyoto University KIER center. June 17.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan. Temple University, as part of the event “Radiating Risk: Public Health after the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis.” July 3.
Invited workshops/symposia
2017. “Measuring radiation after Fukushima: Citizen Movements and the state." Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives, University of Hong Kong.
2013. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after Fukushima.” STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disasters. University of California at Berkeley.
Conference Presentations
Panels Organized
2018. "Forests, Agriculture, and Oceans: Rurality and the Political Economy of Nature in Contemporary Japan." Association for Asian Studies, Washington DC, March 22-26. Co-organized with Eric Cunningham.
2016. "Bodies in motion throughout Japan." American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, November 16-21. Co-organized with Paul Christensen and Eric Cunningham.
2016. "Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Japan." Association for Asian Studies, March 31- April 3. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2015. “The Work of Healing: Situated Practices, Ideological Discourses.” American Anthropology Conference, November 18-22, co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2014. “Japan at the edge.” American Anthropology Conference, December 3-7. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2013. “Danger!” American Anthropology Conference, November 20-24. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2012. “Can I eat that? Food, Drink and Disaster.” Asian Studies Conference in Japan, June 30. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2010. “Crafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of Taste.” American Anthropology Conference, November 17-21. Co-organized with Yuson Jung.
2010. “The Anthropology of Alcohol in Japan.” Japan Anthropology Workshop, March 14-16. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
Papers Presented
2018. "Value and agriculture after the Fukushima nuclear accident." Association for Asian Studies, Washington DC, March 22-26.
2017. "Value and food after the Fukushima nuclear accident." American Anthropological Association. Washington DC, Nov 28-Dec 3.
2017. "Food safety in East Asia." Roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting. Toronto, March 16-19.
2016. "The Dancing Body in Japan." American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, November 16-21.
2016. "Stress and Radiation after Fukushima." Asian Studies Conference Japan. International Christian University, July 1-2.
2016. "Food Security after the 3.11 East Japan Earthquake." Sun & Star Symposium in Japan. Keio University, June 11.
2016. "Stress and radiation after Fukushima." Association for Asian Studies, March 31- April 3.
2015. “Healing the land: Farming after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.” American Anthropology Conference, November 18-22.
2014. “Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” American Anthropology Conference, December 3-7.
2014. “ Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” International Symposium on Roles, Responsibility and Social Imaginary in a Risk Society. International Christian University, Japan. July 17-18.
2014. “Seeing Radiation, Sensing Radiation: Food after Fukushima. American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, April 10-12.
2014. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, March 27-30.
2013. “Aiming for zero: The ambiguity of low-level exposure to radiation in post-Fukushima Japan.” American Anthropology Conference, November 20-24.
2013. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after Fukushima.” 4s Social Studies of Science. October 9-12.
2013. “Precarious Consumption and Food after 3.11.” Cultural Typhoon, July 13.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” American Anthropology Association Conference, November 17-21. 2012.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” Asian Studies in Japan, June 30.
2011. “The changing images of terroir: Space, place and the Chilean wine industry.” Association for the Study of Food and Society, June 9-12.
2010. “Ah-ha! Unexpected moments and the wine experience. American Anthropology Association Conference, November 17-21.
2010. “Ah-ha! Wine, experience, phenomenology.” Japan Anthropology Workshop. March 14-16.
2007. “Food, Nation, Localism: Japan and agro-food studies.” Anthropology of Japan in Japan. November 17-18.
2005. “Augusto Pinochet: An economic nationalist.” Middle Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies. April 8-9.
Discussant
2018. Internationalism, Populism, and Reformism. Sun & Star Symposium in Japan. Kwansei Gakuin University, June 14-15.
2015. Politics of Food Safety in China and Japan. Association for Asian Studies. March 26-29.
2015. Consuming Food, Producing Culture: Past and Present Worlds of Food and Gender. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 6.
Teaching
"History of Anthropology Part II" (graduate level)
"Political Economy" (graduate level)
"Global Issues and Development" (graduate level)
"Introduction to Ethnographic Methods"
“East Asia in Motion”
"Global Processes and Problems: An Introduction"
“Tasting Food: Politics, Science and the Senses”
“Gender in contemporary Japan”
Professional Service
Reviewer for American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Food and Foodways, Gastronomica, Japanese Studies.
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Research Seminars
2016-2017. Participant in the Animals Research Cluster, Southern Methodist University.
2008-2011; 2013-2014. Harvard Political Ecology Working Group (Group co-cordinator for two years).
Media Coverage
2013. With radiation, worries about food. Harvard Gazette. March 11. Available at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/with-radiation-worries-about-food/
Languages
Spanish. Speaking (native), Reading (native), Writing (native)
English. Speaking (fluent), Reading (fluent), Writing (fluent)
Japanese. Speaking (fluent), Reading (excellent), Writing (excellent)
German. Speaking (fluent), Reading (excellent), Writing (conversational)
Harvard University—Ph.D., Social Anthropology, 2014; A.M. Social Anthropology, 2011.
University of British Columbia—M.A., Political Science, 2007
Trent University—B.A. Honours, Anthropology and International Development Studies with an emphasis in International Political Economy, 2004.
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University. 2015 - present.
Postdoctoral fellow. Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. 2014-2015
Affiliate Appointments
Faculty Fellow. Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2017-2020.
Publications
Books
Food safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk, forthcoming with the University of Hawai’i Press.
Edited Volumes
2018. Guest co-editor (with Paul Christensen and Eric Cunningham). Bodies in Motion. Special issue of Japanese Studies. Volume 38 (1).
2014. Guest co-editor (with Yuson Jung). Food and the Senses. Special Issue of Food and Foodways, Volume 22 (1-2).
Journal Articles
2018. Japanese Ballet Dancers: Routes of Mobility and the Body. Japanese Studies 38 (1): 75-91
2015. Food after Fukushima: Risk and Scientific Citizenship in Japan. American Anthropologist. 117 (3): 455-467
2014. Unexpected Moments and the Wine Experience. Food and Foodways 22: 90-111
Book Chapters
2014. On food and safety. In To see once more the stars: Living in a post-Fukushima world. Edited by Daisuke Naito, Ryan Sayre, Heather Swanson and Satsuki Takahashi. New Pacific Press.
2013. Space and terroir in the Chilean wine industry. In Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass. Bloomsbury, edited by Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin. 51-66.
Other Publications
2012. Food and Place. Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer.
2007. Augusto Pinochet and Economic Nationalism: In search of Chile’s superior destiny. Trent Center for the Study of Global Power and Politics. Working Paper Series, CSGP 07/4.
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
National and International
Sam Taylor Fellowship, 2015.
Waseda University Junior Visiting Researcher Fellowship, 2012-2013.
Japanese Studies Fellowship for Doctoral Students, Japan Foundation, 2011-2012.
Monbukagakusho research scholarship. Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology. 2007-2008
University
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Bok Center, Harvard University. 2015.
Reischauer Institute Dissertation Completion Grant. 2013-2014.
Reischauer Institute Dissertation Grant. 2011-2012.
Summer Research Grant. Asia Center, Harvard University. 2010.
Summer Research Grant for Doctoral Students. Reischauer Institute. 2010.
Summer Research Funding. Harvard Anthropology Department. 2009.
Summer Language Grant. Asia Center, Harvard University. 2009.
Karanja Njoroge Community Service Award. Trent University. 2004.
Invited Talks
2017. "Food safety and the politics of risk after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Japan Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, September 26.
2017. "Food safety after Fukushima." Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University, September 7.
2015. “Mothers and Activism after Fukushima.” Freie University, May 19.
2015. “Food and Risk after Fukushima.” Skidmore College, January 26.
2014. “Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar Series, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University. September 30.
2014. “Food after Fukushima: Risk and Radioactive Pollution in Contemporary Japan.” Hamilton College, March 12.
2014. “Citizen science and radiation measurements after Fukushima.” Yale University Anthropology Colloquium series. January 27.
2013. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” Kyoto University KIER center. June 17.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan. Temple University, as part of the event “Radiating Risk: Public Health after the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis.” July 3.
Invited workshops/symposia
2017. “Measuring radiation after Fukushima: Citizen Movements and the state." Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives, University of Hong Kong.
2013. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after Fukushima.” STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disasters. University of California at Berkeley.
Conference Presentations
Panels Organized
2018. "Forests, Agriculture, and Oceans: Rurality and the Political Economy of Nature in Contemporary Japan." Association for Asian Studies, Washington DC, March 22-26. Co-organized with Eric Cunningham.
2016. "Bodies in motion throughout Japan." American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, November 16-21. Co-organized with Paul Christensen and Eric Cunningham.
2016. "Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Japan." Association for Asian Studies, March 31- April 3. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2015. “The Work of Healing: Situated Practices, Ideological Discourses.” American Anthropology Conference, November 18-22, co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2014. “Japan at the edge.” American Anthropology Conference, December 3-7. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2013. “Danger!” American Anthropology Conference, November 20-24. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2012. “Can I eat that? Food, Drink and Disaster.” Asian Studies Conference in Japan, June 30. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
2010. “Crafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of Taste.” American Anthropology Conference, November 17-21. Co-organized with Yuson Jung.
2010. “The Anthropology of Alcohol in Japan.” Japan Anthropology Workshop, March 14-16. Co-organized with Paul Christensen.
Papers Presented
2018. "Value and agriculture after the Fukushima nuclear accident." Association for Asian Studies, Washington DC, March 22-26.
2017. "Value and food after the Fukushima nuclear accident." American Anthropological Association. Washington DC, Nov 28-Dec 3.
2017. "Food safety in East Asia." Roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting. Toronto, March 16-19.
2016. "The Dancing Body in Japan." American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, November 16-21.
2016. "Stress and Radiation after Fukushima." Asian Studies Conference Japan. International Christian University, July 1-2.
2016. "Food Security after the 3.11 East Japan Earthquake." Sun & Star Symposium in Japan. Keio University, June 11.
2016. "Stress and radiation after Fukushima." Association for Asian Studies, March 31- April 3.
2015. “Healing the land: Farming after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.” American Anthropology Conference, November 18-22.
2014. “Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” American Anthropology Conference, December 3-7.
2014. “ Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan.” International Symposium on Roles, Responsibility and Social Imaginary in a Risk Society. International Christian University, Japan. July 17-18.
2014. “Seeing Radiation, Sensing Radiation: Food after Fukushima. American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, April 10-12.
2014. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, March 27-30.
2013. “Aiming for zero: The ambiguity of low-level exposure to radiation in post-Fukushima Japan.” American Anthropology Conference, November 20-24.
2013. “Safe and Trustworthy? Food safety after Fukushima.” 4s Social Studies of Science. October 9-12.
2013. “Precarious Consumption and Food after 3.11.” Cultural Typhoon, July 13.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” American Anthropology Association Conference, November 17-21. 2012.
2012. “Searching for safe food in post-Fukushima Japan.” Asian Studies in Japan, June 30.
2011. “The changing images of terroir: Space, place and the Chilean wine industry.” Association for the Study of Food and Society, June 9-12.
2010. “Ah-ha! Unexpected moments and the wine experience. American Anthropology Association Conference, November 17-21.
2010. “Ah-ha! Wine, experience, phenomenology.” Japan Anthropology Workshop. March 14-16.
2007. “Food, Nation, Localism: Japan and agro-food studies.” Anthropology of Japan in Japan. November 17-18.
2005. “Augusto Pinochet: An economic nationalist.” Middle Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies. April 8-9.
Discussant
2018. Internationalism, Populism, and Reformism. Sun & Star Symposium in Japan. Kwansei Gakuin University, June 14-15.
2015. Politics of Food Safety in China and Japan. Association for Asian Studies. March 26-29.
2015. Consuming Food, Producing Culture: Past and Present Worlds of Food and Gender. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 6.
Teaching
"History of Anthropology Part II" (graduate level)
"Political Economy" (graduate level)
"Global Issues and Development" (graduate level)
"Introduction to Ethnographic Methods"
“East Asia in Motion”
"Global Processes and Problems: An Introduction"
“Tasting Food: Politics, Science and the Senses”
“Gender in contemporary Japan”
Professional Service
Reviewer for American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Food and Foodways, Gastronomica, Japanese Studies.
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Society for East Asian Anthropology
Research Seminars
2016-2017. Participant in the Animals Research Cluster, Southern Methodist University.
2008-2011; 2013-2014. Harvard Political Ecology Working Group (Group co-cordinator for two years).
Media Coverage
2013. With radiation, worries about food. Harvard Gazette. March 11. Available at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/with-radiation-worries-about-food/
Languages
Spanish. Speaking (native), Reading (native), Writing (native)
English. Speaking (fluent), Reading (fluent), Writing (fluent)
Japanese. Speaking (fluent), Reading (excellent), Writing (excellent)
German. Speaking (fluent), Reading (excellent), Writing (conversational)